PHILIPPE VI de Valois 1328-1350 ✠ PhILIPPVS x... Lot 10

PHILIPPE VI de Valois 1328-1350 ✠ PhILIPPVS x DEI x GRACIA x FRAnCORVM x REX. (punctuated by two superimposed saltires). Crowned king seated frontally on Gothic throne, holding long fleurdelisé scepter and hand of justice. Polylobe cantoned with shamrocks around the rim. R/. ✠ XP'C: VInCIT: XP'C: REGHAT: XP'C: IMPERAT, (N uncial to VINCIT and N retrograde to REGNAT, punctuated by two superimposed annuli). Cross with curved, four-lobed, foliate and fleur-de-lys arms. Quadrilobe trefoil cantoned with four coronets. ♦ Fr 269; Dy 258 C Gold chair (July 17, 1346). (4,67 g) Superb. GASTON PHÉBUS was the son of Gaston I and Aliénor de Cominges. He married Agnès de Navarre. Faced with the importance of the florin in transactions, he introduced gold specie in Béarn with rare florins imitated from Florence and Aragon.